My first spindles came today and I'm thrilled! They are handmade ones, one with a cd whorl and one wooden wholed one which is heavier. I couldn't decide which I wanted so bought both, as they were only ten dollars each. I'm trying to get the courage to try them! samm

I bought a homemade drop spindle today that was made using cd's and a dowel rod. I paid the lady $5 that had made it. I knew I could make it much cheaper than that, but I figured that was cheap enough, not to have to do it. :D

That was actually a GREAT price for the CD spindle. I've made about 20 of them, and they cost about $3.00 to make each one.

You have to buy a wooden dowel, a cup hook, a tiny piece of vinyl tubing, and two rubber grommets. It takes a LOT of time to make your first one, because you spend at LEAST an hour just looking for all the parts in the correct size. (I ended up going to THREE stores, looking for rubber grommets in the right size.) It also took me a while to find CDs I didn't mind letting go for this project.

THEN, I had to go to my step-dad's woodshop to cut the dowels to the right size, then sand down the tips. Then, my husband had to drill a tiny hole in the end of each dowel.

So, unless you have a lot of time on your hands, it pays to buy one from someone else.